{"id":2784,"date":"2014-10-31T17:53:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T17:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2014-10-31T17:53:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T17:53:05","slug":"special-needs-student-receives-signed-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=2784","title":{"rendered":"Special Needs Student Receives Signed Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2785\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/SpecialNeedsStudent.jpg\" alt=\"SpecialNeedsStudent\" width=\"600\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/SpecialNeedsStudent.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/SpecialNeedsStudent-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/SpecialNeedsStudent-405x189.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was a memorable moment Saturday inside the Liberty Memorial Middle School gymnasium, as a torrential downpour of rain was happening outside.<\/p>\n<p>A loud thunder and lightning stopped the eighth-grade football game between Liberty Memorial and Los Cuates, and both teams ran inside the LMMS gym.<\/p>\n<p>One of those running in was Javier Sias-Martinez, Liberty Memorial\u2019s water boy. Javier is a special needs student.<\/p>\n<p>Athletic coordinators\/head football coaches Lonnie Lopez of Liberty Memorial and Rolando Lopez of Los Cuates planned to recognize Javier at the game, but the weather did not cooperate.<\/p>\n<p>So they moved their emotional presentation inside. The visiting Los Cuates players had autographed a football for Javier.<br \/>\nCoaches and administrators from both schools gathered inside the gymnasium, and when Gomez presented the ball to Javier on behalf of Los Cuates players, Javier was all smiles.<\/p>\n<p>Javier\u2019s parents and younger brother were there as well.<\/p>\n<p>It was a moment Javier will never forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a memorable moment Saturday inside the Liberty Memorial Middle School gymnasium, as a torrential downpour of rain was happening outside. A loud thunder and lightning stopped the eighth-grade football game between Liberty Memorial and Los Cuates, and both teams ran inside the LMMS gym. One of those running in was Javier Sias-Martinez, Liberty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lfcisd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2786,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions\/2786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}